Shoulder Season

1. Finished books will be available for review copy mailings in January. 2. Additional marketing will include National Poetry Month sponsorship, consumer advertising in poetry journals, conference display, academic direct mail marketing, and a large, pre-publication finished book review copy mailing to all major newspapers, arts media, and poetics journals. 3. We will seek print media and radio interviews to coincide with National Poetry Month. 4. Ange Mlinko is currently living in Beirut, but planning an East Coast and Midwest tour for mid-April, developing a web site, and continuing her regular column for The Nation and her freelance criticism for Bookforum, Poetry magazine, and the London Review of Books.

Exacting, virtuosic lyrics on surviving tough times.“In Ange Mlinko’s Shoulder Season observation and metaphor are always on edge. . . . The poems are at once formally engaged, playful, and disturbing. It’s a wild ride and a great read.”—Rae Armantrout With a title that plays upon “shouldering” one’s burden, this equally fanciful and hard-hitting collection captures the uncertainties and economic turmoil of twenty-first-century life, where the mind might still be “a little spa,” but the future “is hedged against the / boys who died.” A longtime East Coast resident and language columnist for The Nation, Ange Mlinko currently lives in Beirut. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, Poetry, and elsewhere.